Today’s focus was on the education system in Nicaragua, which leads me to the students that we met today. I have no idea how to start describing how adorable the children we met today were. There were so many innocent smiles that one can’t help but smile in return. And although I had no means of talking to them (because I can’t speak a word of Spanish) I still fell in love with the class I visited. If anything, watching them tear into a broken piñata was actually one of the scariest things that I have ever witnessed coming from a child. Nothing can compare to the sight of children ripping apart a spider man head after beating it into spilling its sweet guts all over the floor. Which is completely at odds with the image of those same kids going around asking my fellow glimpsers and I for autographs in their tattered notebooks (awwwww). Not to say that the students at Fabretto weren’t charming in their own way too. Of course being on the losing team in our spontaneous soccer (futbol) game doesn’t exactly win them any favors from me. After which i brought out a piñata for them to break as well. And I swear there is something about piñata’s that drive kids crazy, because at the Fabretto school, one of the last hitters held one half of a broken stick in each hand and jumped in the air trying to stab the hanging piece of Paper Mache with both sticks. Thankfully the group of students I was teaching English to weren’t that eccentric. But while they weren’t as energetic (for lack of a better word), they were truly way more sassy in comparison to the other students that I met today. what I mean is like, I’m pretty sure they were teasing Sam, Shaquille and I when we couldn’t understand what they were saying, but it was all in good fun, and I am looking forward to when I can teach them again.
– Justin
Nice blog Justin! Have fun guys, Enrique don’t forget to call me on your free day!
Justin: You are hilarious. Let’s bring a piñata to BCS and see what happens… I have a feeling it might yield similar results. I’m jealous of your futbol match and wish I could have been there to school the children. Love love love to all of you! xoxox
Justin, I laughed out loud while reading this. It sounds like you all are just as excited as the kids are, and that it’s been a great teaching experience! How did the teaching go? I hope the kids keep surprising you in wonderfully funny ways, and charming you with their smiles! 🙂
Ah, the time honored tradition of the piñata- beautiful in its violence and destruction. I’m also glad you got a chance to see what it was like to be a teacher and I hope that you come back to BCS and encourage your peers to be the best students they can be.
Though, I can’t relate to the idea of losing. I am pretty much the best at whatever I do. You can ask Maria about my prowess on the softball field as she watched my home run sail over hear head. Sorry Maria, no lucky catches this year.
Competitively,
Phill
A sassy class, eh? I wonder what that was like… 😉 I love the image of kids beating the pinata and “spilling its sweet guts onto the floor.” It sounds like you are doing an amazing job diving into unfamiliar situations and learning as you go. The kids wouldn’t be asking for autographs if they didn’t love you too. Keep up your awesome work!